Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 1028-1034 , December 2009

Determinants of survival in patients with calciphylaxis: A multivariate analysis

,Accepted 24 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.022

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